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Bury Me in Kern County (1998)

Bury Me in Kern County poster
Directed by
Julien Nitzberg
Genre
black comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small town's eccentric residents get tangled up in a series of odd events involving a dead body and a mysterious inheritance. The film follows their increasingly absurd attempts to deal with the situation.

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What happens

Bury Me in Kern County is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Julien Nitzberg, starring Mary Sheridan, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Judson Mills. The film premiered in March 1998 at South by Southwest, where it was the runner-up for the Best Narrative Feature prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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